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5,000 bosses fail to register workers with Socso in 2009
The Star : 23 July 2010

MORE than 5,000 of the 724,290 employers registered with the Social Security Organisation (Socso) failed to submit contributions for their workers last year.

The reasons given for the failure to contribute were most of the companies were small and medium-sized enterprises and a high worker turnover.

Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan said that some of the workers resigned before the company could register them with Socso while some left before payment could be made.

“There are some companies which ceased operations due to financial losses, while other employers failed to contribute because they had just started their businesses and were not financially stable,” she told Senator Mohammed Najeeb Abdullah yesterday.

To a supplementary question, Maznah said workers were still given protection when they were involved in an accident at work although the employers did not submit contributions to Socso.

“Socso will cover the worker’s medical claims, but the employer will be fined for failing to contribute to Socso,” she added.

Maznah said until August last year, Socso enforcement officers had inspected 21,370 premises nationwide.

A total of 4,173 employers were found to have failed to make contributions and 2,810 were compounded, she said.

“Socso also filed 305 cases against employers in court,” she added.

Maznah also said in June alone, the authorities discovered that 14.5% of the 20,509 employers checked had not made contributions to Socso.